Two more Jews were arrested in Leningrad in recent days and are being held without charges, it was reported here by reliable sources today. They were identified as Victor Shpilbans, a 28-year-old physician and Michael Kornblit. 33, a dentist. Their arrests brought to 12 the number of Jews arrested in Leningrad since last June. According to a report from another reliable source, a 16-year-old Jewish boy, Monus Mafpzer, was recently attacked and severely beaten by unknown persons in a street in Riga, Latvia and is still in a hospital there. The youngster was identified as the brother of Boris Mafpzer, a Riga Jew arrested recently as a dissenter. According to the source, local police have not found the assailants and are not making a serious effort to find them.
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